Tag: Telemetry

BC Telemetry Buddy .. now with (community) knowledge

I did a thing .. again .. 🤪 A few weeks ago I wrote about building the tool but forgetting the skill. That post kept nagging at me. And the more I thought about it .. the more I thought about one word .. Knowledge Think about it .. every time you start a telemetry session with …

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I built the tool .. but forgot the skill..

So.. here is a train of thoughts… I’ve been doing this telemetry stuff for a while now. KQL snippets, ADE (or what I recently learned: the real abbreviation is “ADX” 🙈) dashboards, the Troubleshooting Buddy (with Dmitry) (where it all started to go into an interesting direction) and of course now BC Telemetry Buddy. Of …

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Troubleshooting Series – Ep5 – Telemetry

Next topic in the troubleshooting series: Telemetry. Probably the biggest one yet – and one that’s quite close to my heart, as I’ve been spending a ridiculous amount of time on it over the past years. As always in this series – I just want to throw a bit of “waldo”-sauce on there, with my own …

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BC Telemetry Buddy  – When Your 12-Year-Old Accidentally Helps You Find a Problem

TL;DR While showing my kid what I was working on, I casually asked my BC Telemetry Buddy “what customer has the most reason to complain” – and accidentally discovered a customer bleeding CPU time every morning from a broken background job. The issue got fixed, and this whole thing turned into a nice story to explain how …

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BC Telemetry Buddy – 84 commits later..

I did a thing … well .. I guess .. I kept doing things .. 🤪 If you haven’t read my previous post, I recommend to do so: Analyzing BC Telemetry with AI with the “BC Telemetry Buddy”.  Consider this one the be the “sequel” 😉 TL;DR In the last 4 weeks, my BC Telemetry …

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Analyzing BC Telemetry with AI with the “BC Telemetry Buddy”

I did a thing … TL;DR I created an MCP for VSCode that makes it possible for you to just “talk” to your Telemetry without touching KQL or getting to know any tools.  It’s available on the marketplace, you don’t need extra subscriptions to fancy models or tools – it just uses your chat subscription …

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Troubleshooting Series – Ep3 – Missing Indexes

As a third episode, I’d like to talk a bit about troubleshooting “missing indexes” in Business Central.  And as always – I just want to throw a bit of “waldo”-sauce on there, just to add my own perspectives, opinions and practices ;-). What can we do for Business Central (I’ll focus on SaaS .. for …

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Handling Business Central Telemetry like a boss: iFacto Telemetry – Pt. 3

Part 3 indeed.  That means, there are two other parts in this series, and if you haven’t read about it, and if you’re interested in learning more about how to handle Telemetry for your Business Central business – I can suggest to read my previous posts about it 😉 In the latter, I suggested that …

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Handling Business Central Telemetry like a boss: my Azure Data Explorer dashboard – Pt. 2

If you didn’t read my first blog post from last year about this, you can find it here: Handling Business Central Telemetry like a boss: my Azure Data Explorer dashboard.  This post is a follow-up.  Because – you know – sometimes – just sometimes – I put my money where my mouth is.  In my …

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Cleaning up Media Orphans with the Data Administration tool in Business Central

Did you ever wonder how to delete Media Orphans in Business Central? Even more – did you know that Media Orphans are a real thing – and can consume a great deal of your database capacity?  It is a thing – and you should be aware! Well – here’s a story that made me dive …

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